The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1887-02-17

Wire ulauuiacturins, unOor WHICH tHe St
Louis company was operating, was an in
fringe upon the Burnell patent held by ths
Marshalltown company. The suit ha
been pending for three years.
The senate has confirmed the follown,
nominations; l.. X. Church, governor q
Dakota; H. d. Gallagher. Indiana, agent II
the Pine River Indian agency, Dakota; w
nj. Neal, Indiana agent at Lamli agency.
Dakota. T. Priestly, Wisconsin, agent az
Yankima Indian agency, Wash. Postmas.
ters: ID. w. Carry, North Yankima. Wash;
f. NJ. kinter, Lamonre, OAK; c. A. Troval
tan, Park River. William A. A. Walker,
United States attorney for the Eastern dis
trict of Wisconsin.
The president sent the following nominal
tions OF postmasters to the senate: Ezra
A. Glover Jr.. New Richmond. Wis; Peter
V. Cottrell. Fort Howard, Wis.,; Patrick
| Talent, Butte City, Mont.
| Ezra A. Glover, who was appointed
postmaster at New Richmond, Wis.,, is ~
merchant of that town and q brother OF
J ohm +. Glover OF Hudson, u retired law
yer. prominent politician lumberman, and
friend OF Postmaster General Villas. He
is responsible for the nomination. Glo-
yer is a young man.
The shortage OF Benjamin r. Chamber
| lain, bookkeeper for Combes, Hannah NCo.
| (llcaSO, VINO mas Deeu uFTeSttu IL
| bezzlement. is Sill 900.
Agel Babb shot and killed Andrew Moon.
colored, at Wilmington, Ohio. He says
he shot in self-deiensc. The men had quar-
relied some time ago.
| The Montana independents adviees
| from all over the territory are that a
chinook is com ng. The temperature Is
! abont zero at all points.
Mr. Parnell denies that he il going to the
continent. He says his physician is well
satisfied with his progress. The Parnel-
| lites will oppose in parliament all projects
relating to the liquor traffic in Ireland on
the ground that the question should be re-
served for an Irish parliament. Edward
| Kennedy OF Dublin has been elected by The
| Nationalists OF South Sligo without OF
| position to the commons to fill the vacu H.
| cy caused by the decision OF Thomas Sax
/ ton to sit Tor West Belfast instead OF Sou' h
| Sligo he having been returned By both dis
tricts. Parnell purposely avoided absolute
approval OF the princip pie OF the plan oil the
| campaign in order not to offend il number
OF Gladstone members who disapprove the
plan but are inclined to hold onto it as a
| desperate temporary expedient. Parnell
| spoke with energy and was much Exhausted
at the end Mr.. Gladstone promises to sup.
port the Parnel. amendment.
| The government has appointed com
| mittee to consider the ACCESSIBILITY OF cs-
| tablishing in London a hospital for the
| treatment OF persons afflicted with hydro.
phobia, to be conducted upon the princi-
pies established by Pasteur.
In the house OF commons Parnell moved
his amendment to the address in reply to the
queens speech. The amendment is as fol
! lows: The relation between the owners and
occupants OF land in Ireland have not tven
seriously disturbed in the cases OF those
| who granted their tenants such aba tements
us were demanded by the prices OF agri-
cultural and pastoral produce. The rem
edy for the crisis in Irish agrarian affairs
will be found not in increased stringency,
criminal procedure or in pursuit OF such
novel, doubtful and unconstitutional
measures as those recently taken by her
! majesty's government, but in such reform
| OF law and system OF governments, as Will
satisfy needs and secure the confidence OF
Irish people.
When asked by a correspondent what he
| thought OF the threatening state OF affairs
| which might possibly draw the United
States and Great Britain into hostilities,
Sir Frederick Middleton, commanding the
Canadian forces, said the subject, was al
most too absurd To talk about. So
! little Importance have we attached
to all the buster that has been fired off re-
Gently that neither the minister OF militia
nor myself have even referred to the sub
| ject. Not single special order has been
/ sent out Of the department to officers COM
ma nding CORPS to hold them selves i'll readi-
ness and report on the efficiency OF their
regiments, as would Immediately have been
done if any serious movement were con-
| tcmplated. No, this generation will never
see war between the great nglisl-speaking
nations of the would.
In the case OF Jesse P. Farley VS.. Norman
w. Kittson and James Hill in the SUI
preme court, Judge Gray delivered the
| opinion OF the court reversing the decisi on
OF the lower court with costs. The opinion
holds that the pleadings and statements oil
the case were not in such shape that the
court could justly rule upon it. the case
can hereafter be put i'll such shape that it
can have consider a ton in an equity sense
the merits can be determined by this court
and the court below without prejudice
from this act on in any sense. Therefore
the case stands just where it did at first,
with no division of the equities and no rui-
ing for the appellant.
The president sent the following nomin-
ations to the senate on Monday the 18th,
inst. T.. C. Love, Missouri, consul general
atthe City OF Mexico; ]. NJ. Needhani, In
DIANA agent for the Indians OF the Lemhi
agency, Idaho.
The Canadian Pacific is biockaded by
snow and slides. There has been no through
! mail foF twelve days. 1t is unknown when
one will get through. Mail is coming via
Anne riean roads. The Fraser river is now
frozen almost to its mouth and naviga.
ton closed. There are several INCHES oil
ice at Port Moody, the Canadian Pacific
terminus. Telegraph lines have been down
in all directions for week.
Mr.. Strait was informed by Secretary
Bayard that the claim OF Mrs. j. Cakes oil
st Paul of an interest in the Venezuela
award would receive attention as soon MS
congress had taken the necessary steps in
legislation to authorize the payment ofthe
money.
We're Graham, an Englishman who is said
to sing divineiy.
Chang Jen Hoon, the Chinese minister nj
Washington. wears blue silk over 2 petit
coat Of white brocade and sports big dia
mond in button on his black cap.
The Canadian Pacific shops at Yale. B.
C., were consumed by fire. Loss, $500
900. The origin is supposed to have been
II spark from passing locomotive.
Lord Wolseley has just lost one brother,
an army surgeon. and has two surviving
Burke's Peerage to the contrary notwith
standing. One il an adjqtant general in
| Bengal and the other squatter in Aus.
traiia,
Judge Thomas g. Ashe. of the North Car
DINA supreme court, is dead.
Mr.. Ferguson, parliamentary secretary
for foreign Office. stated recently in the
house OF commons: The correspondence
between Great Britain and the United
States in relation to the Canadian fisheries
question would in a short time he laid be-
fore parliament. The correspondence con
tanned full Information about the history
OF the whole affair down to a very recent
date. A dispatch from the dominion gov
ernment containing suggestions as to mo
dus operandi between Canada and thu
United States was now gu its way to Lon
don. The imperial government conld not
therefore, send proposals to Washington
until the Canadian dispatch had been re
csived and considered.
/ At Chicago, Joe Acton, champion catch
as-catch-can wrestler OF America, defeated
Evan Lewis Of Madison, Wis.
Rev. 7. De Witt Tallnagc, OF the Brook